Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Go to The Gunshop And Get a Haircut

A visit to Calgary isn't complete, for me at least, without a visit to the city's world famous Gun Shop Barber. That's right, a gun shop that's also a barber; you'll find it in Inglewood on 9th Avenue, and it's called Proline Shooters. I went there yesterday to browse the guns and get a cut.

Proline has a good, if smallish selection of firearms, and I cast a covetous eye at their burnished Sakos, gleaming behind the counter. Their pistol selection featured Glocks, Berettas and, I think, Sigs, plus a variety of I want one large revolvers. I may be wrong, but it seems that Canada bought into Beretta's PX4 Storm to a greater extent than the U.S. Whatever, Proline carries several variants.

Then, after looking at a couple of sporterized Lees in the 2nd hand rack, I paid a visit to Dan the barber.

Dan, Photo by Jared Sych

We reminisced about his predecessor, Doug, who died of pancreatic cancer some years back. I liked Doug and was always curious about his socialism. Calgary's Red Barber, in a gun shop, that was him. May he rest in peace.

Haircut over, I headed out into the winter wonderland of 9th Avenue, and that, readers, was that.

Probably they had sane prices since they haven't had a chief executive who continually makes noises about restrictions gun rights.

There's still a few of the older gun shops in Texas combined with other businesses, like an army surplus or hardware store. Haven't seen any barber shops, tho. The older style barbers are getting thin on the ground, being replaced by sports-themed men's hair salons, seems like.

I was just thinking that, Anonymous. It's stalled for the moment because I have to take it to a 'smith to get the barrel shortened and a forward rail installed. But stand by for a late Jan/early Feb update.

I don't think Jeb! is going to do it, LL, but maybe Trump can. After all, it's a win win -- we get cheap guns & ammo, Alberta gets a much needed revenue stream to make up for the oil patch implosion. Benefit all 'round.